Nearly 20 carjackings reported in one week in Chicago

Two suspects, possibly connected to a string of carjackings in Chicago, were arrested after a crash along the Eisenhower Expressway near Austin Avenue late on Nov. 13, 2017. (Network Video Productions)

Two suspects, possibly connected to a string of carjackings in Chicago, were arrested after a crash along the Eisenhower Expressway near Austin Avenue late on Nov. 13, 2017. (Network Video Productions)

Chicago police were called to at least two carjackings Sunday and early Monday, capping a week that saw nearly 20 such attacks across the city.

In the most recent carjacking, a 20-year-old man was sitting in a 2014 Buick Verano with a female in the 2400 block of North Maplewood Avenue in Logan Square around 12:35 a.m. Monday when two gunmen forced them from the car, police said.

Earlier on the Far South Side, a 52-year-old woman was pulling out of a driveway in a 2016 Kia Sorrento around 6:40 p.m. Sunday in the 2300 block of West 115th Street in the Morgan Park neighborhood, police said.

The woman told police she was approached by two men in a white four-door sedan. The passenger of the sedan got out with a handgun and told the woman to leave the car and get on the ground.

The latest incidents come as carjackings are rising in Chicago.

More than 700 carjackings have been reported in the city so far this year, outpacing last year's total of 663, which was nearly double the carjackings reported in 2015, the Tribune reported this month.

Just in the last week, at least 19 carjacking have been reported.

In a 24-hour period from Nov. 12 to Nov. 13, Chicago police said they responded to 12 carjackings.

In the following days, an 88-year-old man was carjacked by two men on Wednesday in the 1000 block of West 61st Street when he as returning from the gym, police said. One of the suspects was killed while speeding away.